As winter settles in to Central Oregon, rivers and managed wetlands offer excellent areas to view waterfowl. “Central Oregon is a great place to see a wide variety of winter waterfowl, including ducks ...

Christian Manzanares Torres received the news while getting ready to celebrate her mother’s birthday. Ariel Sandigo Manzanerez, her second cousin once removed, was picked up by a U.S. Immigration and ...

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sandcastles are good reminders of how temporary everything is. We build them on the damp edge of the shore after the tide recedes, and then they crumble when the sea rolls ...

High school campuses across Bend-La Pine Schools rang in the new year by implementing a complete cell phone ban, restricting access to personal technology during the school day in accordance with a ...

This March, environmental nonprofit Discover Your Northwest will host its inaugural Youth Wildland Fire Career Camp, a free ...

First it was the invitation to the public to add their personal surveillance cameras to the network of cameras that can be automatically (or manually) accessed by law enforcement. Then it was red ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is shelving a major overhaul to a key federal homeless services program ...

Ian Cranston has been released from Deschutes County Jail, having posted 10% of his $500,000 bail, the Deschutes County ...

Say her name!” one protestor yelled, prompting a packed Jan. 10 crowd at downtown Bend’s Peace Corner to scream back with a ...

Three months after opening, students from the School of Rock Bend will hold their first public concert. “We are very excited for our first performance, as you can imagine,” Jeff Reading told the ...

Bendites, we’ve got our outdoor sports dialed. The means by which we sweat and socialize is so often wrapped up in our ...

While many Oregon farmers pull back amid tariff worries, low crop prices and a difficult labor market, Jeff Newton plans to ...